-Mikan-

Mikan Sakura had a problem. She was in love with 2 guys. And not any 2 guys, no, but her 2 best guy friends 'Natsume Hyuuga' and 'Ruka Nogi'.

She hadn't told anyone, not even Hotaru. Not that Hotaru needed telling though, she probably already knew.

Mikan sighed as her alarm clock rang breaking her line of thought. She turned it off and got up. The glowing figures on the alarm clock read "5:00". Training for Persona had her awake at 5:00 from Monday to Friday, she had made a deal with him: if she joined the dangerous abilities class, he would allow Natsume to stop doing missions and her to take his place.

All unbeknownst to Natsume of course.

So she had joined as soon as Persona had proposed his deal-3 weeks ago. But waking up had never been a problem as now days she rose before her alarm clock thanks to the 2 gorgeous guys haunting her thoughts.

She showered and changed robotically, and was heading out to the Northern forest before 5:20.

"Damn it", she thought as she reached the rendezvous point and saw that persona was already there. Her training officially started at 5:45 A.M but she liked to come earlier and enjoy the early morning quietness without Persona's dark aura, she had even come at 5:10 yesterday and….

She sat next to him and stared at the sky above.

"KuroNeko is starting to suspect something", he mumbled, breaking the silence,"he doesn't yet know but he will if he continues watching you like this".

Well, see here's the thing, Persona wanted me in his class because of my SEC (steal, erase, copy) Alice, and the bonus: nullifying.

I accepted on the terms that I would remain in the S.A class and that Natsume would stop doing missions. So nobody officially knew that I was part of the D.A class. Only Hotaru actually, because if Natsume found out I was training for Persona, he would go ballistic.

"We're safe for the time being," I said softly. "He hasn't yet even come across the thought that I have switched classes".

"The time is coming ShiroNeko, KuroNeko isn't blind, give it one week, maybe two". "Well", I replied, "let's hope I have a plan by then".

His watch bleeped. Our training began. Persona was an exceptionally good teacher. He moved so fast, that if I didn't have all my Alices, I could never have hoped to block his attacks.

He managed to come up with a way to test and train each and every one of my Alices.

God it was annoying how he thought up things, and even making a lesson for my Mind-reading Alice (courtesy of Koko) by sitting me down and making me see into his mind, he is almost as hentai as Natsume, let me add.

We flew through our everyday routine and at 7:00 I was walking back to my room. Classes began at 9:00 so usually I had time to go back to bed, but recently I had discovered an energetic side of me and had started swimming 70 laps a day at the Olympic sized, Alice nullified, pool before classes.

Hmmm... Thinking about the difference between me today and me 4 weeks ago, Natsume was sure to notice something was up. I made a mental note to sleep in tomorrow.

I reached the steps of the special star dorm building (I had been upgraded when we saved the academy from Reo, as had Hotaru, Koko and the others) and walked up to my room. The clock now read 7:06. I pulled out my one-piece swimming suit and changed.

I only took a towel because the pool was usually deserted at this time.

The sun had come out now and as I walked towards it I could see the pools reflection shimmering against the ground around it.

But as I reached the clearing, I heard voices, and I stopped, if word got around the Mikan Sakura had gone for a swim at 7 in the morning, Natsume would hear about it by mid-morning, and my game would be over by night-fall.

I crept into the clearing of the pool and I froze... I couldn't move even though I knew it would be mere seconds before I was spotted. The two people there...were Natsume and Ruka.